Abstract
The situation in India illustrates the difficulty faced by political leaders and administrators in many developing countries in choosing a strategy for dealing with population growth. At the 1974 United Nations World Population Conference in Bucharest, a member of the Indian delegation stated, ‘Population policy … cannot be effective unless certain concomitant economic policies and social programmes succeed in changing the basic determinants of high fertility. It has truly been said that the best contraceptive is development.’ However, in 1976, during the period of emergency rule in India, a vigorous programme of compulsory sterilisation was officially advocated in some States.1 An official statement on national population policy was made, to the effect that ‘[t]o wait for education and economic development to bring about a drop in fertility is not a practical solution’.KeywordsRural HouseholdPopulation PolicyModern Birth ControlLandless HouseholdApplied Economic ResearchThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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